All news stations are a joke. I prefer CNN. Yes, they are more liberal, but I find them more tolerable.
Most of the bad comments come from Hannity, Beck, and a couple of other random guests. I think most of their hosts are just as biased as other News Stations though, not necessarily more or less. Sean's the worst in my opinion, he fear mongers the most and takes these petty attacks. Personally I watch every news station and don't believe you can get the whole story from one channel. I also noticed some very bland and normal comments about the poor state of our economy or being disappointed, I don't get how that is supposed to be offensive, so the clip is superfluous in that sense.
Yeah, stuff like Cheney getting rich off Halliburton, 9/11 was a hoax, and I don't even know where to begin with all the rest.
Seriously - they're all a joke. CNN has D.L. Hughley hosting a political show? MSNBC is the worst - I'm not sure who the bigger douche is, Olbermann or Matthews.
They do these things over and over. An absolute joke. I don't care that they are bias because channels like MSNBC are heavily bias as well, but claiming to be "fair and balanced" and "We report you decide" is simply a fucking joke. [video=youtube;0gh6r5ALVMo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gh6r5ALVMo[/video] [video=youtube;hqcyz3UDvGw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqcyz3UDvGw[/video] [video=youtube;ouKJixL--ms]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKJixL--ms[/video] [video=youtube;lM3oww9Vk-c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM3oww9Vk-c[/video] Absolutely fair. At least they do it both ways, right? I mean McCain/republicans gets attacked by Fox News all the time, right? Its a joke. You aren't fair or balanced. Their motto should be... "News from a conservative point of view" or something like that. [video=youtube;1-eyuFBrWHs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-eyuFBrWHs[/video] If a democrat took us to war with Iraq, you think they'd be doing this?
And maybe the New York Times should change their motto from "All the news that's fit to print," to "All the news that will advance the liberal cause." What do you think?
Fox News is kind of like a cult leader. Everyone knows they are a fucking whackjob other than the people who follow them. -Pop
Honestly, I dont' see how you guys can take that video seriously. Most of those clips fused together are completely out of context or weren't even talking about Obama at all. Compilation videos are usually like that. They take words out of context because it makes it more convenient to make their point that way.
The biggest favor Republicans ever did for Democrats was creating right wing media like Fox and talk radio. At first it was effective at gathering those who were politically undecided. That culminated in the election of Dubya and the Republicans running congress. The problem was that it also created a pretty amazing feedback loop. Staunch Republican voters increasingly only listen to these shows. The most conservative shows do the best, so there's a constant drive to create more and more right wing (and unbalanced media). This drives the voting demographic even further to the right. Which in turn creates a greater market for even more ideologically pure right wing media. Around and around it goes, until there are almost no ideologically impure Republicans (and consequently no viable Republican candidates in the Northeast.) The Republican party becomes a regional party of the South, the one area of the country with enough ideologically pure voters to actually elect candidates. Democrats win the presidency, the House, the Senate, governorships, etc, in all but the most conservative areas, because they are the only party left that is still accepting moderates. Arlen Spector, a guy who voted for both Roberts and Alito, just became a Democrat because he didn't stand a chance anymore in Pennsylvania as a Republican. Republican media will rejoice that this ideological impurity (moderate?) has been purged from the party, allowing them to cleanly field a true-red right winger (who will of course get thoroughly stomped in the general election). Meanwhile, they'll continue to espouse in ever shrinking (but increasingly pure) circles rhetoric that makes the rest of the country scratch our heads.
Amazingly, that was a quote from Ronald Reagan. If he were alive to say that at the last convention, he probably would've been shouted out of the place. Here's a great piece on the subject by Olympia Snow, a Republican from Maine (it's where I lifted the quote): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/opinion/29snowe.html?_r=1&em
